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Peer reviewedSmye, Randy – English Quarterly, 1984
Reviews what researchers have found out about prewriting, and postulates how this information can help teachers promote growth in writing. (CRH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Prewriting, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedClifford, John – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
Process and collaboration were blended into a pedagogy called collaborative composing in this experimental inquiry that tested the hypothesis that an instructional method that divides the composing process into discrete stages in a collaborative environment will improve writing performance. (HOD)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, College English, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Download full textWolski, Paul – 1981
Research in secondary school composition instruction indicates that (1) emphasis on writing for the teacher-as-examiner is prevalent, (2) prewriting activities are limited, (3) there is little discussion of approaches to the topic or what information should be included, and (4) activities to help students while they are writing are almost…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Processing, Prewriting, Secondary Education
Meyers, Douglas – 1979
Freshman composition students at a community college in Maryland participated in a study to determine whether the talk-write method of writing instruction would have a more positive effect on freshman writing than would more conventional methods of instruction. Four classes totaling 58 students were randomly divided into an experimental and a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Prewriting, Speech Communication, Teaching Methods
Camp, Gerald, Ed. – 1982
Each written by a classroom teacher and based on the experience of that teacher working with his or her students, the articles in this collection are an extension of the Bay Area Writing Project assumptions. Many contain samples of writing done by students in response to the writing tasks described. After a preamble that discusses what is already…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Wesdorp, Hildo – 1983
One objective of the International Study of Achievement in Written Composition was to develop an instrument that could explore the relationships between instructional variables and educational results. Three levels of specificity were aimed at: (1) broad and general characteristics of the instructional process; (2) specific dimensions of native…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Measurement Techniques
Matheson, Carol – 1980
A study examined whether using a tree diagram (a graphic, multidimensional classification device) as a prewriting organizer would provide students with a systematic method of searching for and organizing the content of their descriptive writing to meet some communication goal. One-hundred twenty-three seventh grade students were classified as…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Descriptive Writing, Diagrams, Grade 7
Duin, Ann Hill – 1983
A study investigated the effects of preteaching vocabulary on students' performance of a writing task targeted to the use of those words. Subjects were 50 fourth grade and 55 sixth grade students. Materials included a pretest narrative writing assignment, a 10-word vocabulary pretest and posttest, a vocabulary instructional booklet with teacher's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 4, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Fearing, Bertie E.; Allen, Jo – 1984
Intended to help secondary school composition instructors develop a useful, pragmatic unit on technical writing, this monograph explores the theory, research, and pedagogy of technical writing. The first section discusses the purpose and forms of technical writing, as well as elements of technical style including diction, paragraphing, and…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
Sunflower, Cherlyn H.; Crawford, Leslie W. – 1986
A study investigated how and when writing is used at the elementary school level to determine (1) what kind of instructional support elementary students receive, (2) what prewriting support is provided, (3) what support for revising is offered, and (4) what happens to the students' writings. Using preservice teachers as observers, data were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition), Teacher Student Relationship
Lally, Tim D. P.; And Others – 1983
Once its source has been identified using the multidimensional model developed by D. W. Stacks, R. W. Boozer, and T. D. P. Lally, writing apprehension, especially among business writing students, can be treated in the classroom with specific pedagogical techniques. Emphasizing the writing process rather than the product--stressing peer and teacher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Positive Reinforcement, Prewriting, Sentence Combining
Fitzgerald, Jill; Teasley, Alan B. – 1983
A study investigated whether direct instruction in story constituents and their interrelationships could enhance children's organization in story writing. It was hypothesized that the special instruction could provide children with an internalized prototype story structure that could serve as a heuristic or planning device for organizing…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Creativity, Grade 4
Myers, Miles, Ed.; Gray, James, Ed. – 1983
Intended to show teachers how their approaches to the teaching of writing reflect a particular area of research and to show researchers how the intuitions of teachers reflect research findings, the articles in this book are classified according to three approaches to writing: processing, distancing, and modeling. After an introductory essay that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Sommers, Elizabeth A.; Collins, James L. – 1984
Research about writing and the teaching of writing has demonstrated that writing is a process, that thinking and writing are inextricably connected, that workshop and tutorial methods are more efficient than teacher or textbook dominated instruction in writing, and that correctness does not have to be a major concern in the teaching of writing.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers
Brockley, M. Elissa; And Others – 1981
This manual is intended to assist elementary school teachers in developing classroom writing experiences. The sections in the first part of the manual address the individual stages of the writing process (prewriting, writing, and postwriting/editing) by reviewing research, presenting case studies of children's writing, and outlining activities,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Holistic Evaluation
